Andrew Cuomo Will Win NYC Mayor Dem Primary if He Runs — Thanks to Ranked-Choice Voting: Adviser; Andrew Cuomo Committed ‘medical malpractice’ During Deadly COVID Crisis, House Report Finds, and other C-Virus related stories
Andrew Cuomo will win NYC mayor Dem primary if he runs — thanks to ranked-choice voting: adviser:
Andrew Cuomo would be the favorite to win the Democratic primary for New York City mayor next year if he jumps into the race — thanks in part to ranked-choice voting, an adviser to the-ex governor claims.
“I would be lying if I said that I had not seen data that answers that question,” Melissa DeRosa said on Mark Halperin’s 2 Way Tonight podcast Wednesday, when asked about how Cuomo would fare in a Democratic primary.
Ranked choice voting, which went into effect for city elections starting in 2021, comes into play if the top-vote getter gets less than 50% of the vote.
Under the system, voters choose candidates in the order of preference.
The last-place candidate is eliminated and voters who chose that candidate then have their votes counted for their second choice, and the process continues until only two candidates are left — with each candidate getting a vote for everyone who put them in their ranking.
“[Cuomo] starts out as the clear front runner and it’s not just because of his name ID,” DeRosa, who was Cuomo’s top aide when he was in the governor’s mansion, said.
She believes that supporters of former city Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Sens. Zellnor Myrie of Brooklyn and Jessica Ramos — all announced candidates for mayor — are likely to rank Cuomo as their second choice.
In a crowded primary field, ranked choice voting means those votes are ultimately likely to go to Cuomo.
“Any black vote that Zellnor Myrie gets immediately goes to Cuomo. Any Hispanic vote that Jessica Ramos gets immediately goes to Cuomo,” DeRosa said.
Still, she said, Mayor Eric Adams is a wildcard — and whether he is still in the race could affect Cuomo’s calculus on whether to run. —>READ MORE HERE
Andrew Cuomo committed ‘medical malpractice’ during deadly COVID crisis, House report finds:
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed “medical malpractice” and publicly undercounted the total number of COVID-related nursing home deaths in New York during the worst period of the killer pandemic, a damning final investigative report released by a key House panel found.
The report from the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, released Monday, also concluded that Cuomo “likely gave false statements” about his role in pandemic decision-making.
That includes him actually being “directly involved” in the infamous March 2020 edict directing nursing homes to admit recovering COVID-19 patients — and downplaying pandemic-related deaths of residents in a July 2020 report, the House panel found.
In another finding, the report concluded that Cuomo “acted in a manner consistent with an attempt to inappropriately influence the testimony of a witness and obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation,” referring to his contacts with former adviser James Malatras.
The House had previously released documents laying out the allegations about Cuomo and his administration’s actions — but the more-than 500-page final report paints a devastating picture of the three-term Democratic governor’s decisions that the subcommittee claims undermined public health.
Cuomo — who is weighing a political comeback run for mayor after resigning as governor in 2021 amid sexual misconduct accusations he denied — ripped the report as a partisan GOP witch hunt.
“This is the same weak gruel the MAGA Republicans on this committee have been peddling for months if not years,” said Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.
But Rep. Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio Republican who chaired the panel, said in the opening letter of the report that there was bipartisan consensus on numerous topics including “that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo participated in medical malpractice and publicly covered up the total number of nursing home fatalities in New York.”
A more than 40-page section of the report focuses solely on Cuomo and the state government’s response to the pandemic. Cuomo’s name appears in the report 203 times. —>READ MORE HERE
Follow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
House Democrats slam Cuomo over COVID nursing home order, saying he ‘interfered’ with death toll stats
A grim reminder why NY really doesn’t need an Andrew Cuomo run for mayor
USA TODAY: Coronavirus Updates
YAHOO NEWS: Coronavirus Live Updates
NEW YORK POST: Coronavirus The Latest
If you like what you see, please “Like” and/or Follow us on FACEBOOK here, GETTR here, and TWITTER here.
Jesus Christ is King
